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So ae ci i Stsers. em: | as is well rotted, _and has been thoroughly incorporated | should be filled up wi with those 
since by Messrs. ak aon probably by fog eg gging. As soon as it has ro ey | ioe mei mer ina ary restr ar chee Soren ti 5 
ployed triang . [lew el the space, and sow in, small shallow drills seven or | the seo would recommend for 
| eight inches pat, te r broadcast if drilling is elendiane stiff heavy cana not <i ania are el, ,200 ees 400 Scotch 
too troublesome, taking care in eithér case to rake the seed | Pines, “400 iprmaze Ree! Sp Pgh tm 
| well into the feet without burying them too deep. The | Elms, and al 200 of o' sorts. On a fine deep y 
ees ent culture is very simple, weeding and thinning loamy soil I gril plant 1,200 Larch, 400 Ash, 400 
will | Elms of sorts, 200 Oaks, 200 Sycamore and Maple, and a 
hich é FE pote and fur- til the roots have eaten their full | few evergreen Firs; and" in a damp y situation, 
hed all tk by aporation from the size, ee we ke 3 and Loe ed for black Italian Poplars, 800 Alders, and the remainder 
e. =. fanart ‘ae all’ fy TnodiG cations of it, s ge h Birch or Tree Willow. These calculations refer only to 
are open to the objection that all the — urities which by d-beds, | plantations 9 are made solely for the ion of 
eran fall into these troughs or gutters may be carri tried | or ne that are not likely to be wanted b ornament is the object, a few Lombardy 
by the circulation into the boilers, and depositing shom the young Broccoli en Car aA them Tberally with | Po -oplars may y be od with the other trees, o 
Bel Water it ar weather. 
A much better age is, T think, to cast ¢ a trough —— and baked pn the ese ; Jet it be | Wh m coppice, I should agen 400 
ae F irred without delay, and i y Oak 100 Horse, 60 Ah 40 Has and the rest 
Hornbeam and Ash being the “ae ‘for yr ordinary 
HOME CoO ORRESPONDENCE. 
Cottage Garden in, anced that you | take bigest ct 
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time afterwards.—M. E. H. | h Ch which grows the fastest of all. 
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best adapted for hop- poles, splitting for hurdles, — 
&e that if 
i th une, the first 
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the soil 
: * ded perf ae KE of 
wi sngie! will be able ® is well cleared away t owing, 
explain on scientific mebrnertrd 6h aed from a gar- | it will require but little farther attention, as the htter 
dener, last spring, a full-grown | black ‘currant ten, just | about the stem of each tree during winter is beneficial 
bursting into leaf. I p' y garden, gave | rather than otherwise, taking care that the growth of the 
dant it plenty of yarn gh; it began to grow freely, "Iw was | tree is not impeded by it. Thi hod may be objected 
without abstracting l heat fro vain enough to myself a good transplanter. But | to on account of the expense, but this is not so great as 
hoe Art nf weather sh in stil plant ceased to grow, many 0 of may be imagined the t tren meine can rv for 3/. or 42. 
se eect ica pr eae hae en ey er re nS ie, A TN 
the purity of the circulating 
water. These troughs have iat fell to to the ground. Repeated | the planting can be more watskly kek in so 
the further ae of be’ eing eee ar the first eke which fates Staal’ bat as | prepared than in the ordinary — Ano’ excellent 
entirely ft I had found before that this did more harm than good | method of planting is on land that has been several times 
dry; w arly al to, could not attend to spar as fallow, when the in either 
arent on a ‘erect aes it regularly, to the following expedient :—I or autumn. I — seen a beau 
fitting of their temporary | took cow-dung and other litter and spread it over enticoly of Scotch Pines, w a ce n planted in land 
covers. the surface of the ground above the roots, and gave the | so treated, except that a Sg e manure was given as if for 
_ Had these  trough-pipes whole a copious supply of water. The effect of this, to | grain. fd se Scotch Pines are rere, they should 
di th my inexperienced eye, has been quite magical ; the | leaves | be planted alone, as they suffer less growing thick 
te; I should pom’ have have t broad and ‘ together roe witie: any other been will thrive in 
trod some «into the tifully, and the ground » has never been dry since.—A | almost any soil, but a strong heavy land se them best. . 
= house at Chiswick, Cottager. Another mode is not to plant immediately after trenching, 
ging t n this x Calceolaria.—The sport of this genus, mentioned as but after a crop of Po tatoes, cote or ‘the like, which 
sketch though with a view g : 
0 thefall effect of the radiant tural Society, i is not at all uncommon. I first observed it anxious to obtain g I axish - Alpes heed ae 
to the prevention in 1835, _ tail nd r planting in the goeseange 
Sriny ¢ gr nao gprerrusip een of which had the poe! turned inside out, as in | There a hods, such as planting old 
of heat to the air than i - Biaauw’s specimen, we others vhad tw spectre | pastures | raat | pay a tat enact the trees, ark & for 
avoidable, it would be better wn together. You are others plant with the plough, 
pra vagaries of C. ie ecco in his Amaryllidacez, | merely meee the trees in the furrows, and covering 
p. 364.—S. b i 
aie ot by the Roots. —My experiments on the a pease than ‘Dat which I a aloo oe ——— with 
Its by the roots have bee! mmon attention will in most cases ins' 
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| re 7 ramifications ie the Soins samen simple. I commu- Force of growing pi removing, very recently, 
ea ogee a larger por- ted the method I Capper, of Ivy from an oli house at Carshalton, it was disoes 
| ti : eceal that a thick en water- been in many 
S icecanerae wo vine ‘are justly appreciated | it I ard acetate of ead, -1 | places deeply indented, and in some almost ed fiat, 
: =, because on the other plan the opposing surfaces of | of potassa cudligS » aeetabe bE mi F potassium, ps rar te the a) to te ra ee i as if 
- | caustic potassa; if sulphate ip Pom salt) of iron, hydro- | Boa Constrictors, presenting sere diferent: from 
} tion, and become cooler principally by t the contact of the | create GF pil tassa, and eS, ra of iron I found as dele- | that whieh Shakspeare makes draw of herself, and 
j pre is objection applies in a4 terious Bottom the Weaker: 
: of all pipes which are presented to the wall, and from | not find acetate of lead a by any means porenc aoe “ pie « So doth ie Oma te sven 
i which hia efore the heat is conveyed to a large extent by | the in som at least, to accelerate vegeta- | Gently entwist,—the female ivy so sie oie 
: osphere. Economy would —— be consulted | tion and promote its fexuchanen I that a “ fancy ”? Enrings the erpneg argc elm. 3 
byaining up all those portions of surface which are not | gooseberry-grower, in Lancashire, ascrib in | What is th 1 obj exerted 
; me eR to radiate directly ay ape tie a or upon the | oa 4 prize to his ‘administering a dose of | by the Ivy? And what are the ints ade to in Shak- 
thee clothing the | accetate of lead to the plant !—J. Murray. oe ee eer suckle? Lastly, 
a r semi-circumfere of wi pipes with non-¢on- Drosera rotundifolia, &c.—The Drosera, which is a fly- Why do many pers spose then > be ‘the same 
ting — or “fh practicable by giving to tip incli ; as well as the | plant?—A. d. mag R gown the 
: catcher, I was once inclined to believe, 3 the | Pl " 
Portions a bright metallic lustre.-—A. Aing Drosera ia, to be carnivorous. I confess that I Bine, or wild eae ticki Why hey ar 4 hg gt ta 
i paketit i inly indiscri- | be the same plant—probably because they are ib 
i COTTAGE GARDENS.—No. XXIV. have changed my opinion. Both are certainly indiscri : : 
> bag have directed the cottager’s attention to — nina athe their ridny) of] ments. One + on ene I twiners he pate aoa te eae only one which binds ye 
j ner in which some of ‘the most 4 . h, which ov et: the ary of an 
: plant should be treated ; but there yet remains one to be ne reaper es ines apn tte le, and of = gation Wak a: 
: ‘eae seesites our opinion, is caleulated to become of pote yee i cote ited tg a ‘at | eonall gs Woods plants grow perpendicu : or at 
§ thnistnes iy m cottage fae 2 bee would the havoc of grubs, c wike- wore ight be, in occa- the extremities, and horiontaly or at the sid the 
| gardens, and a tial to be made eecky caer wt instances, arrésted by the application of boiling latter takes place without much 
; 1a8 itin his power todo so. Tk ter- g prop nat 30 38 wee 
iS . ger aE i i 5 ee plant mus: t eit 
+ Suceory, which grows wild in this country on  calea. | known that boiling water may be applied to the roots of a gr 
; so a ws y, Flanders, and —— parts of | Some trees without injury. The Vitex Agnus Costus will | displaced ; which goes to 
Ontin: 1k q pA Tez. Pas 
not only Sip rigpgiee eae Forest-tree Planting —Wishing both to give and re-| The Buck Bean psa 
i loti etic i rs oe «| ceive ins Courant of the 15th ult., after 
| pi r 7 . — “suggested on forest-tree planting. To oon — this plant A 
. with any chance of success, it is necessary to ascer- serves ithering, 
: state which the ground intended to be a is | possessed of powerful medicinal 
we the leaves is extremel; 
. eS, ee Pfs 49 arld feet. th Re d dropsies. 
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7 ‘may be planted in the spring. such means the | leaves s in a green state. tate.—A 4 
ea ae =e Coad i : plant is one of the most chi of our native alia 
mage an her left 
better than when the operation is is egular eee even in| 
the spring. ‘The mode of planting I prefer is so is prescribed in “interins itten and remittent 
the trees that they should not from any point of feyers, as well as rheu 
suck hie ma ae cee cast th the reots may b : f the dri her! 
‘spread out horizontally without being crowded. Snioao | aan ae co 
